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S1E03: Pop Quiz SmackDown (Volume 1)

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Degrees of Freedom Are Number of Constraints, Right?

In structural equation models, degrees of freedom are literally the number of constraints that you've imposed on your model. If you have a model with two degrees of freedom, you are a coward because you're only imposing two restrictions on your parameter space. So life itself is a tennis game. I am queuing up the clock. You have 90 seconds to give me a thoughtful. 90 seconds on something that I hate in statistics. Please extemporize on confidence intervals. Okay. Good. Oh, but it's far from over my friends.

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